TY - JOUR AU - Oliveira, Otávio Augusto do Nascimento AU - Mesquita, Laiana Sepúlveda de Andrade AU - Mendes, Maurício Rocha AU - Oliveira, Lílian Maria Magalhães Costa de AU - Almeida, Laís Cristina PY - 2020/09/03 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Effects of cranial osteopathic techniques in the symptoms of benign positional paroxistic vertical JF - Manual Therapy, Posturology & Rehabilitation Journal JA - mtprehabjournal VL - 18 IS - 0 SE - Research articles DO - 10.17784/mtprehabjournal.2020.18.788 UR - https://submission-mtprehabjournal.com/revista/article/view/788 SP - 1-5 AB - <p><strong>Background</strong>: The benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) is the most common cause of dizziness among the population. The osteopathy is a practice of manual therapy which is guided by a holistic perspective of human being, the cranial osteopathy affirms that the respective bones of the cranium represent mobility. Objective: To investigate the effect of the cranial osteopathy techniques on the benign paroxysmal positional vertigo. <strong>Methods:</strong> The current study included 20 female subjects, each one of them with benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, distributed in two groups, an intervention group and a control group (placebo); in order to detect the BPPV, was applied the Dix-Hallpike test before and after the interventions. Three techniques of cranial osteopathy were used on the structures related to vestibule and to the temporal bones: mobilization of temporal bones, tensioning of cerebellar tentorium and mobilization of eyeball. All statistical analyzes were performed using the GraphPad Prism 6.0 software (GraphPad Software, CA).<strong>Results:</strong> Among the intervention group, 7 of 10 individuals were negative to the Dix-Hallpike test, whilst individuals of the control group remained positive to the test. In the statistical analysis verified that the intervention with osteopathic techniques had a significant effect in compared to the control group, with a value p=0.0261. <strong>Conclusion:</strong> The cranial osteopathy appears to be able of produce effects on the vestibular activity, whereas were able to reduce, in a significant means, the symptoms concerning to BPPV.</p> ER -